Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Rooting For the Little Guy

Uzi Nissan is the owner of Nissan Computer, and the original owner of the web sites www.nissan.com and www.nissan.net, which he registered in 1994. Nissan the car company sued Uzi in 1996 for cybersquatting, requesting $10,000,000 damages.

However, as Uzi's web site points out,

This is after more than 20 years of Mr. Nissan's well-documented use of his family name for business purposes in the US,and which he commenced when the cars were known as DATSUN.

Nissan Motor won injunction against Uzi, and he was forced to close his web sites, converting them to non-commercial use. Then Uzi appealed, and Nissan Motor's injunction against Uzi for using the web address was reversed. Nissan Motor is appealing to the supreme court.

Nissan Motor Co. should know better than to try to screw an Israeli named Uzi.